Recent stuff and...Wow, I didn't know my mind could go there.
I must get this out of the way: I wrote Captain John Hart/the Joker porn for 10_quotes . It is probably the dirtiest and most twisted thing I've ever written, and I'm pretty darn satisfied with it. So, um, yeah. I think I feel like a better class of criminal or something.
I'm on break from school for a month now, so there'll probably be more of that.
Let's see...Today, my mom, my 12-year-old sister, and I were playing Boggle today, and my sister and I both found a certain word, and my sister listed her words first---her first word was "porn." Since my sister is only 12, my mom was understandably alarmed, and I just broke down laughing. My mother actually told her, "I didn't even know you knew that word!" My brother's best friend, Jeremy, wandered in and asked what was going on, so we told him. Then Jeremy said that when he was a kid (he's now 16), he thought that "prostitute" was a branch of the government, and he failed his 5th grade geography test because he wrote "the prostitution branch"---his teacher wrote on his test, "I thought better of you." Then he showed it to a friend, who straightened him out (after saying "WHOA!").
I'm watching Forrest Gump right now, and I'm at the part where he's in Vietnam. The Forrest & Bubba scenes make me think of Peter (my brother) and Jeremy, and how they've been together for freaking ever (or at least since the 1st grade, when Peter thought Jeremy's name was "Germany"). I think that's why Peter thinks Bubba's death is the saddest part of the movie---in fact, I think that's his favorite section of the movie.
What else? Well, my mom found out in late November that she's going to have to have her hip replaced---she's only 52! Apparently she has cysts in there and...yeah, ew.
I've been rereading the Royal Diaries series recently (not to be confused with The Princess Diaries, which is also a good series). Each book is written by a different author (those some authors wrote more than one) and each follows a historical princess/queen for a couple of years in their lives (including Elizabeth I, Marie Antoinette, Catherine the Great, and Anastasia, as well as some lesser known Asian, European, and Native American princesses). I just finished Eleanor of Aquitaine and I'm rereading Cleopatra right now. I've been noticing that these books are really well-written because the princesses are all really fleshed out with strengths and weakness and flaws, as well as a ton of super-subtle subtext that I didn't fully understand for several years. They're meant for preteen girls (I was 12 when I started reading them) but they're a ton of fun to reread all these years later because they're so layered and tackle many issues (like marriage, identity, economic problems, and dangerous political intrigues) in a tastefully and appropriate way without going over the top. I wonder if I'm the only one who's reread them over and over.
I made gluten-free ginger snaps yesterday and I'll have to make more cookies in the next couple of days, so yeah, that's life right now.
ETA: Edited because LJ has been taking cuts and turning them into walls of text lately.